But when we finally spoke on the telephone the conversation quickly took a bizarre turn. Paul G. Schreiber insisted that the declassified documents I had accessed from the National Archives and elsewhere, and reported in Operation Paperclip, were fabricated; that they were all part of a Soviet plot, engineered by the KGB, to malign his father, the former surgeon general of the Third Reich, who was anticommunist. “Father was a good man,” Paul G. Schreiber insisted. “All he ever wanted to do was teach. Father looked down on Hitler. With my own ears, I heard father called Hitler a
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